The New York Times Crossword

Answers below

ACROSS

1 Crash protection?

9 Abandon

14 “Waiting to Exhale” or “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” dismissively

15 Sassy retort

16 Mexican wrap

17 Service provider?

18 “___ Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)” (#1 country hit by Jerry Reed)

19 “As frickin’ if!”

21 Some pyramid builders

22 Tied up

23 Up

26 Its name is completely fabricated despite being “translated” as “gem of the mountains”

28 Go out for a bit?

31 Role

32 52 semanas

33 Marketer’s payoff

35 “I can relate,” in Gen

Z slang

38 Bottom

39 Farm sound

40 Prefix with present

41 Urge

42 Hangs on

44 Tears up

45 Pedestrian caution

46 New employee

48 “Surely you know that’s ludicrous”

52 Flight

55 Split up

56 Way out

58 Word with tea or autumn

59 Dining option where bow ties might be expected

60 Spiritual

61 Like a tryst, usually

DOWN

1 Isn’t oneself?

2 *Gulp*

3 Wear out

4 National Book Mo.

5 Accessory worn with goggles

6 Where you can hear pins drop

7 Bad lot

8 Among others: Abbr.

9 It might say “zero” on its container

10 Cartoon mouse on

“The Simpsons”

11 French thinker?

12 “You know you wanna …”

13 “My ___!”

15 It’s a big thing

20 Not yet known, for short

21 Lipstick choice

23 Well

24 Chevrolet offering

25 Strength

27 “When in ___, don’t” (maxim attributed to Benjamin Franklin)

28 Climate writer Klein

29 Exclusively

30 Procedures that may involve a pumice stone, informally

32 Dancing duo of the early 1900s

34 The first recipe for one was published in “Tramping and Trailing With the Girl Scouts” (1927)

36 Hawaiian, e.g.

37 Borrowing option

43 Business card abbr.

44 Certain modern investment, informally

45 Renounce

47 Brief out line?

48 Steamed rice cake

49 Air

50 “True Blood” actress ___ Rachel Wood

51 Brand sold at pet stores

52 Endangered predator of the Southwest

53 Menken who wrote the music for “The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty and the Beast” and “Aladdin”

54 Only

57 Flying Solo